We can create a new project in jenkins by following these steps.

We choose maven Project instead of a free style project and give it a name. Go to the project configuration we don't add anything to scm as we are running our local maven project using jenkins.

Under build environment , under goals we give any of the maven commands like mvn compile or mvn test etc.And in pom we give the address where our pom.xml file is lying.

Then in build triggers ,we choose Build periodically and we define when we want to run our project etc.